> 2. Imho it's the wrong place to do this, dpkg should generate those.
> This has been plannned for ages but dpkg development is currently
> somewhat stalled since we don't want to make too many changes in a
> single release and we can't release 1.10 with the current release
> system (we don't want it to go into woody).
>
So we should wait another year to support this when we can add support now and
change how we do it later?